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Hm, I'd assumed that was a reference to the newspaper/typesetting term "slugline". But maybe it's both.
by eli 12y ago
Hm, I'd assumed that was a reference to the newspaper/typesetting term "slugline". But maybe it's both.
- rhino369 12y agoThat might be it actually.
- ghaff 12y agoI'm not sure the "slugline" term is common for that meaning; it's typically (don't know how widely it's still used) just slug. But it's a pretty obvious and clever derived term to combine slug and headline and come up with slugline. Slug line (two words) is apparently a screenwriting term--which I didn't know.
- eli 12y agoI don't think slugline was derived from headline. On old linotype machines, the slug was literally a line of metal.